Today Olivia got to meet Santa Clause. She was a little wary of him at first, but she sat on his lap for this beautiful picture.
Here Olivia is trying on some outfits that her Nana brought her.
Helping Daddy put her new wagon together.
This is Olivia with her reindeer hat that Santa gave her.
Olivia and Daddy testing out the wagon. Olivia is really happy with it and now we will have something to cart the laundry in.
These are some pics of Olivia trying to ride the tricycle Grandma Hopkins got her for Chrismas. She has fun playing with it, but her feet don't quite reach the petals yet.
So we have set up our Christmas tree and advent calender for Christmas. It didn't go as smoothly as last year because Olivia now wants to be involved with setting up the tree, and she was taking apart more than she was putting together. Anyway this is her proudly posing with her Christmas tree.
Here are our pics from Thanksgiving. We went to Nana Colleen's house in Jacksonville to celebrate with family. Brian's Aunt Margie and Uncle Nick came down to visit with us and it was wonderful for Olivia and I to finally meet them. Dinner was great thanks to Colleen and Margie's cooking. We also saw Olivia's Aunt and Uncle and her cousins, but unfortunately we didn't have the camera with us. Maybe we will get some pics to post later of that. Anyways hope everyone else had a Happy Thanksgiving!
Here is Olivia after eating a chocolate chip cookie Mommy made for her.
Also this is a pic of Olivia trying on one of Daddy's shirts.
This morning we went to see Grandpa and Grandma Harvey who are here visiting from Colorado. It was nice to get to see them and have Olivia spend time with them.
Here is a pic of Olivia looking cute.
When we were in Charlotte a friend of ours gave us this neat little kid car. Olivia has been enjoying it, but she gets frustrated when she can't get it to go where she wants.
Here she is with Daddy helping to steer.
Yesterday we went to Charlotte for our friend Lily's birthday party. They had a big bouncer in the backyard and Olivia had fun getting bounced around and snuggling with a Diego doll.
This is the birthday girl, Lily. We would have had more pics but these were the only ones we could get before our camera died.
Today we celebrated Halloween. Olivia was a very cute little ladybug. She got to take part in a costume contest and go trick-or-treating. She also really likes her Jack-O-Lantern. In the morning she points out the door and tells us she wants to see her pumpkin.
This is Olivia at the playground because she couldn't sit still for the movie they were showing before the contest.
Lately Olivia thinks it is fun to get down on her knees and scrub the floor with a washcloth. I have no idea where she learned it from because she has rarely seen me do it.
Olivia's great-grandparents sent us this cute little haunted house for Olivia to put stickers on.
She managed to get them on with a little help from Mom and Dad.
Monday was our second wedding anniversary. Thanks to our friends Susan and Ben who watched Olivia for us, we got to go out to dinner. It was wonderful to simply enjoy dinner together for the first time in a while.
Olivia got a new chair yesterday. She has been asking for one by showing me how much she likes her friends chairs.
So far she has really liked lounging for about 5 seconds and then she is up to do something else. She literally doesn't sit still anymore except for a few minutes to read books or eat.
We went to a lake near our house the other day. They have a lot of ducks and geese living there and Olivia had a blast chasing them around.
At our apartment complex today they had an event called summer fun day where they had lots of games for the kids to play.
Mommy and Olivia playing in the water bucket.
Olivia playing with her friends Brian and James.
Olivia eating ice cream with a new friend.
Olivia playing with chalk.
